EXS-24: Fine tuning of parameters with, um, shift?

I could swear I read in the manual somewhere that you can obtain finer increments for various EXS parameters by holding down shift or CNTRL or something while changing the value of a control. I've tried all the modifier keys, none of them seem to give me what I'm looking for. I'm mostly looking to get finer increments for ENV 2 release time. Am I barking up the wrong tree with this idea that modifier+control movement = finer increments?

Holding down shift while moving the mouse gives the following results in an empty EXS24 for the ENV2 release time parameter in milliseconds:
(Caution: move your moose, ahem, mouse slowly!)
0.000, 0.003, 0.009, 0.024, 0.049, 0.092, 0.157,...
Just changing the aforementioned parameter with the mouse alone, yields the following results:
0.000, 0.009, 0.049, 0.157, 0.384, 0.797,...
Please observe, that using the "shift & mouse drag" results in twice the resolution compared to just "mouse drag".

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pilotguy74 wrote:
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Thanks William.
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